History of the Construction of Europe

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome, this archive video stockshot shows the main steps of the European construction and illustrates by some examples the major European policies.

Only the original language version is authentic and it prevails in the event of its differing from the translated versions.
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1. 1945-1950

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Images of aereal bombs and destroyed cities (12 shots)

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Marshall plan: unloading of the American aid (5 shots)

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Start of the rebuilding (21 shots)

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Declaration of Robert Schuman, on 9 May 1950, which proposes the creation of a large market for coal and steel, and signature of the ECSC Treaty in Paris on 18 April 1951 (6 shots)

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Steel-works and coal mine in the 1950s (12 shots)

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2. 1950-1970

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Suppression of the customs duties as of 1 July 1968: customs post, setting fire to a customs barrier by the European federalists (11 shots)

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Establishment of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and first reforms in 1973 (Mansholt plan): various plans of the work of the farmers at that time (9 shots)

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Signature of the first enlargement by the United Kingdom, Denmark and Ireland, in Brussels, 21/01/1972 (2 shots)

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Chart of Europe showing enlargements from 1981 to 1986

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Fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, Helmut Kohl, German Federal Chancellor, and Hans Modrow, Chairman of the Council of Minsters of the German Democratic Republic, at the door of Brandebourg (4 shots)